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Construction

Mass Timber Gets the Press. Light-Frame Does the Work.

Walk through any architecture publication right now and wood construction means one thing: mass timber. Cross-laminated panels, exposed glulam beams, landmark buildings photographed at golden ...
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Architecture

The Only Material That Already Belongs

Every building material makes an argument about where it comes from. Concrete says it came from industry. Steel says it came from somewhere far away ...
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Architecture

Surround Students In Wood

In Freeport, Maine, students and researchers now gather in a building that was designed to do more than shelter them — it was designed to ...
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Architecture

The Best Classroom Is the Building Itself

Last fall, Smith College opened Kathleen McCartney Hall — a 15,000-square-foot mass timber hub on its Frederick Law Olmsted–designed campus in Northampton, Massachusetts. Designed by ...
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Architecture

See The Stamp. Trust The Quality – Part 1 of 3

What Your Grade Stamp Is Actually Telling You. Part 1 of 3: How Lumber Gets Graded This is the first in a three-part series from ...
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Architecture

When NELMA Students Designed the Moon Base We’re Now Building

In 2018, NELMA challenged architecture and design students to imagine a lunar colony built with wood. At the time, it read like creative speculation — ...
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Wood is a natural choice for net-zero goals.

On-line architecture magazine dezeen has done it again with a great ...

Why You Should Be a Burl Girl

A recent article in Architectural Digest explores the appeal of burl ...

Hearts of Pine: Portland’s First Pro Soccer Club

More to come soon on this exciting news! “Our long wait ...

Wood: The Breakout Star of Architecture

A new Bloomberg Green Timber Town series looks at the rise and ...

Forest Products Week is upon us!

STOP. Look around you right now.  Ok, how many products can ...

You don’t know SHIP!…lap

In celebration of our 89th Annual Meeting, and in collaboration with ...